Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.